Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-07 Thread NoobAlice
On 2023-12-05 10:46 AM, Tom Balazs wrote: For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful reports? First, make sure to Save Config As for any report you've had to do a lot of customizing to generate. For my own personal use, there are a few reports I use most: These

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user
You use Edit > Stylesheets. Alter the one you want. When you run the report, select that stylesheet in Options. There may not be a way to adjust that column easily. You'll have to poke around to find out or craft a careful CSS rule using the Experimental stylesheet. Regards, Adrien On

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-06 Thread Tom Balazs
How do I navigate to the correct style sheet to edit it? On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 7:06 PM R Losey wrote: > I haven't tried to change column widths. I expect that you may need to > edit the Style Sheets, but I have not attempted to do so. > > > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:49 PM Tom Balazs wrote: >

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-06 Thread R Losey
I haven't tried to change column widths. I expect that you may need to edit the Style Sheets, but I have not attempted to do so. On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:49 PM Tom Balazs wrote: > Thanks, that's very helpful. I followed your recommendations and I like > the report much better now. > > One

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful reports? Common advice is that your emergency savings account should hold enough to cover 6 months of expenses. In order to to do that, I need to know my average monthly expenses. I guess I can use the Cash Flow report, look at

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If you are that far along, the Budget module can 'auto-estimate' based on previous data. Investigate and play with that feature. Even if you don't use it as a basis of a new budget, it can at least provide you with some analysis that otherwise might be more difficult to craft in a report as it

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Balazs
Thanks, that's very helpful. I followed your recommendations and I like the report much better now. One thing, how do I make the column width for Description narrower. Do I have to use Edit->Style Sheets to do that? Tom On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 12:46 PM R Losey wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2023

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-05 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:48 AM Tom Balazs wrote: > I finished importing and reconciling months of bank data. Now I want to put > that to good use. > > For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful > reports? > > Common advice is that your emergency savings account should

[GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Balazs
I finished importing and reconciling months of bank data. Now I want to put that to good use. For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful reports? Common advice is that your emergency savings account should hold enough to cover 6 months of expenses. In order to to do